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No. 244,647. Patented July 19,1881. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo ISRAEL v. MYERS AND JOHN R. MYERS, or Fos'roRI'A, 01110.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 244,647, dated July 19, 1881.

' Application filed July 27,1880. (Nomodeh) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ISRAEL V. MYERS and JOHN R. MYERS, of Fostoria, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented cerend elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a crosssection thereof. I

This invention appertains to improvements in churns of thatclass cmploying'oppositelyrevolving dashers; and it consists in the detailed construction of certain features, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, A indicates the cream receptacle or vessel, of any suitable construction as regards its sides and ends, but preferably provided with a rounded bottom to admit of more thoroughly removing the butter.

B B refer to the dashers, of the form shown, with their shafts provided at one end with angular sockets or caps 11 b, which receive the correspondingly-shaped ends of shafts G 0, bearing in one end of the vessel A. The other ends of the dasher-shafts are supported in a continuous bracket orhearing, D, adapted to that end, and fastened to the inside of that end of the vessel A in any suitable way. The ends of the shafts are confined in position upon the bearing-bracket D by a yoke-shaped spring, E, sprung down over the ends of the shafts and against the ends of the bracket, which are provided with notches N N for the reception and retention of said spring-yoke during the operation of the churn.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the dashers can be readily withdrawn from the receptacle or vessel and in like manner replaced, as occasion may require.

F is the driving-wheel revolving upon an axis or shaft, f, secured to the outside of one end of the receptacle A, and having cogs or teeth upon its inner circumference gearing with a pinion, i, upon one of the dasller-shafts. pinion, h, gearing with the wheel F, transmits motion to and gears-with a pinion, g, upon the other dasher-shaft. adjustably to it by an adjusting-screw, j, an arm or crank, F, through which the dashers may be operated, and by its adjustability its position may be changed as convenience may require.

By the described arrangement of the drivewheel-F and pinions h g the parallel dashershafts B B may be placed in close proximity to each other and yet be rotated in opposite directions, which would not be the case if pinion g were meshing with wheel F in like manner as pinion 6. Thus the cream-receptacle A may be made comparatively narrow without any waste Space at its sides, which provides for a thorough working of the cream in all parts of the receptacle.

We claim as ou'rimprovement and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- The combination, in a churn constructed substantially as described, of the vessel A, havin g the double journal-bracket D, provided with notches N N, horizontal rotary dashershafts B, spring-yoke E, fitting in the notched bracket D over the ends of the dasher-shaft, and suitable operating mechanism, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

' ISRAEL V. MYERS.

JOHN R. MYERS.

Witnesses: w

J. M. BEVER, U. H. UONAGHAN.

The wheel F has attached 1 

